70 LEGENDARY SELF ACTUALIZATION QUOTES TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR SELF ACTUALIZATION JOURNEY

Quotes are very important if you want to achieve a goal.

Quotations inspire a person to do incredible things.

I always find write a quote for my Daily Self Actualization Journal. 

 

If you are trying to Self Actualize, the astoundingly beautiful quotes will inspire you to be a better version of yourself every single day. 

 

 





Below are 70 Quotes to inspire you every day to become self actualized. These quotes will push you towards greatness. You can write them daily in your diary or print them out for a wall hanging.

 

  1.  “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”                                                                                          —Rumi

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  1. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”                                                                                —Madonna

 

 

  1. “Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.”                                                                                  —Oliver James

 

  1. “If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”                                                                                            —Katharine Hepburn

 

  1. “The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.”            —Theodore Roosevelt

 

6.  “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

      — Abraham Maslow

7.   “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.”

—Erma Bombeck

8.  “A first rate soup is more creative than a second rate painting”.

—Abraham Maslow

9.  “All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”

—Abraham Maslow

 

10.                    “One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”

—Abraham Maslow

11.                       "Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense."

—Paul Coelho

 

12.                     “With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.”

—Abraham Maslow

13.                     “Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.”

Bo Bennett

14.                     “What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”

—Abraham Maslow

15.                     “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

—Abraham Maslow

16.                     “Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.”

Leah Busque

17.                      Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

Viktor E. Frankl

18.                     In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization.

Amy Dickinson

19.                     Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Robert Foster Bennett

20.                   A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

—Abraham Maslow

 

21.                     “Self-actualization is the oxygen for the soul.”
Brain Johnson

 

22.                    “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
—Abraham Maslow

 

23.                    “The world will ask you… who you are? And if you don’t know, the world will tell you.”
—Carl Jung

 

24.                    “Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization… Search within… for honest self-expression.”
—Bruce Lee

 

25.                    “What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.

Carl Jung

 

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26.                   “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Carl Jung

 

 

27.                    “It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

28.                   “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
Janis Joplin

 

29.                   “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
St. Catherine of Siena

 

30.                   “She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
Lalah Delia

 

31.                     “I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
 Sharon Olds

 

32.                    “Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

 

33.                    “A woman is like a teabag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”
 Eleanor Roosevelt

34.                   “If you wish to find yourself, you must first admit you are lost.”
Brian Rathbone, Call of the Herald

35.                    “There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
Richard Dawkins,
The God Delusion

 

36.                   “A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!”

Deeba Salim Irfan

 

37.                    To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

Cornelius Plantinga

38.                   No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within.”

Elif Shafak (Forty Rules of Love)

 

 

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39.                   To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself.”

Meg Cabot

 

40.                  Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty.

Deepak Chandra

 

41.                     Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

Lorii Myers

42.                   Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

Shafali Tasabari

43.                   “Life is not about finding yourself, it is creating yourself”

George Bernard Shaw

 

44.                   “If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.”

Abraham Maslow

45.                   “Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

Ann Oakley

46.                   “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
Madonna

 

47.                     “Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”
Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations

 

 

48.                   “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell

 

49.                    “Life has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in life, provide the roadmap for the type of life that we experience. A period of personal unhappiness reveals that our values are misplaced and we are on the wrong path. Unless a person changes their values and ideas, they will continue to experience discontentment.”
Kilroy J. Oldster,
Dead Toad Scrolls

 

 

50.                   “Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives. Purposeful modification of the self only commences with revising our mind’s internal functions. Revamped internal functions eventually alter how we view our external environment.”
Kilroy J. Oldster,
Dead Toad Scrolls

 

51.                     “Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.”
David Brooks,
Bobos in Paradise

 

52.                    The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

53.                    You are what you are, thank God.
You gonna shine like a star
with the help of God—
But we find ourselves first
and then our tool…
Find yourself, don't be no fool.”
Jimi Hendrix,
Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings

 

54.                   I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

 

Carl Jung

55.                    Self Actualizing people are those who have  come to a high level of self maturation, health and self fulfillment…………….the values that self actualizers appreciate  include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity and self sufficiency.

 

Abraham Maslow

 

““The cost of inaction is vast. Don’t go to your grave with your best work inside you. Choose to die empty.”

  Todd Henry

 

56.                   “You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!”

  Israelmore Ayivor

57.                    The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

Neal Donald Walsch

 

58.                   “The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be.”

Kilroy J. Oldster

59.                   “Our goals are not achieved if all our energy given to us to achieve the goal and self-actualization is directed towards being accepted by our surroundings and to meet their requirements”.

Sunday Adelaja

60.                  “For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.”

Glenn Greenwald

61.                     Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”

Marcus Aurelius

 

62.                   It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Nelson Mandela

 

63.                   “We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?”

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

64.                   “It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.”

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

 

65.                   “Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.”

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

 

66.                   “The main purpose of hobby is to promote one’s self-actualization.”

Sunday Adelaja

 

67.                    “The more distortions we have the less attention we can pay to realizing our potential and self- actualization of our personality.”

Sunday Adelaja

 

68.                   “Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.”

Abraham Maslow

69.                   “Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams.”

Hal Elrod

 

70.                   “The "self-actualization" philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will.”

David Graeber

71.    "Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization… It refers to man's desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially."

Abraham Maslow (Motivation and Personality)

 

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